We all know that Congress stepped in and took control of another ESA listing by removing the northern Rockies gray wolf off the ESA list because the Fish and Wildlife Service was too timid to do it.

Thank you. Keep going on that. You all are doing some great work on raising funds and raising awareness and staying engaged in this, and we appreciate it, and we will continue to partner and try to help in what we can do as well.

It is ironic that we have distributed around the world this concept of freedom of religion and disconnect between government and faith, and to say that government does not oppose faith, but now like we are afraid of faith.

the President's own constitutional law professor, Lawrence Tribe, recently testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing that his EPA was attempting an 'unconstitutional trifecta usurping the prerogatives of the States…

this proposal is another attempt by the Obama administration to circumvent the role of Congress and achieve through regulatory fiat what the President could not achieve through legislation.

the EPA was attempting an unconstitutional trifecta, usurping the prerogatives of the States, Congress, and the Federal Courts all at once.

Do you think this is consistent with the Tenth Amendment?

In their wisdom, Congress gave States a primary role in emissions regulation.

The question is how, but for shuttering coal generation in the State of Oklahoma.

If we are reliant upon fossil fuel for 50 percent of the power to run this machine called America and they take that away, how do you run the machine called America?

Richard Lindzen is an MIT professor who is recognized as being one of the top professors around in the climate... He said, it is a power grab. He said, and these are his words, regulation of carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you regulate…

The EPA, under this Administration, treats States like a vessel of Federal will.

The Clean Power Plan proposal throws the cooperative relationship between the States and the Federal Government off balance.

That does not sound like cooperation. That does not sound like partnership.

I saw what happened. In fact, that first bill was the McCain-Lieberman bill; and McCain was a Republican. We decisively defeated that bill and every bill since that time.

Should it be the role of an administrative agency to be forcing States to take this kind of action?

I think it is less about the Tenth Amendment, less about States' rights under the Tenth Amendment, and more about statutory construction.

Quite simply, Madam Chairwoman, the EPA does not possess the authority under the Clean Air Act to do what it is seeking to accomplish in the so-called Clean Power Plan.